Brief overview:
1) David Pogue wrote a critique of the American cell phone industry – State of the Art: The Irksome Cellphone Industry.
2) The CEO of Verizon wrote a letter to the publisher of the New York Times.
3) Pogue published the letter today, in a blog post called “The Cell Phone Industry Strikes Back”, but it has mysteriously disappeared from the New York Times website. I assume under legal threat from Verizon.
Link (non-functioning) for the disappeared piece.
I found the text of the disappeared letter on this blog:Intomobile – “Verizon Wireless CEO responds to David Pogue’s article on the American mobile industry”.
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Well, after my blog post went up, it appeared as though the original blog post here ( http://bit.ly/Txi7U ) was incorrect–the Verizon CEO was NOT rebutting my column at all, but rather a Times editorial that appeared the day before!
If that were true, then my own blog post, saying how unresponsive and clueless the guy was, was equally wrong.
We’ve now got word from Verizon that the CEO’s letter was meant to address me AND several other articles–so we’ve put my post back up!
Complicated, I know.
dp
Thanks for clearing matters up, David! I have to comment that your first critique is spot on. Oh, and Myth #6 (or whatever): Cellphone Industry CEO’s always tell the truth.